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In recent years, much has been made of the classic Monty Python \u201cLoretta\u201d scene from the 1979 film\u00a0Life of Brian<\/em>. To refresh our memories, the People\u2019s Front of Judea (not to be confused with the Judean People\u2019s Front!) are plotting their overthrow of Roman tyranny. As Reg (played by John Cleese) is moderating the discussion, Francis (Michael Palin) espouses the inalienable rights of every man while Stan (Eric Idle) continually interrupts Francis\u2019 \u201cevery man\u201d statements with the addition of \u201cor every woman,\u201d leading Francis to eventually forget what he was saying in the first place. When Francis regains his thoughts and asks Stan why he is \u201calways on about women,\u201d Stan replies that he wants to be one. In fact, he henceforth wishes to be known as Loretta (which is \u201chis right as a man\u201d). He further declares that he wants to have babies (\u201cIt\u2019s every man\u2019s right to have babies.\u201d) and when Reg pushes back that men can\u2019t have babies, Stan\u2019s response sums up the exchange: \u201cDon\u2019t you oppress me!\u201d<\/p>

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Who could have known that this piece would ring with such prescience 46 years later? Today, the progressive left insists that men can indeed have babies. They confidently assert that gender is not tied to sex indicators such as reproductive organs, in which case biological women who identify as men can have babies —\u00a0and theoretically, if they choose, change their name to Stan. The ubiquitous \u201cpregnant man\u201d emoji reflects this cultural view (although, according to Emojipedia, this image is sometimes used to represent a man who has eaten too much).<\/p>\n

It turns out, though, that\u00a0Brian<\/em>\u00a0is not Python\u2019s only comedic prophecy of today\u2019s anything-goes Gender Studies course. In season two, episode one of Python\u2019s\u00a0Flying Circus<\/em>\u00a0BBC series (1969), Cleese portrays Ken Clean-Air System, a boxer who is long on brawn and light on brains, highlighted by the scene in which his trainer (Palin) awakens him each morning by driving a metal peg into Ken\u2019s skull, then physically pushing him out the door and into his morning jog.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/figure>\nIn this skit, Ken is preparing to fight — you guessed it — a woman, and in true Python fashion, hilarity ensues. The narrator introduces Ken\u2019s upcoming opponent, Petula Wilcox (played by Python regular\u00a0Connie Booth), as \u201cthe Birmingham girl who was a shorthand typist before turning pro.\u201d To this, Wilcox adds, \u201cI\u2019m a southpaw and I think this will confuse him, particularly with his brain problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Ken\u2019s brain problems are no problem at all. In a fast-motion boxing scene, Ken repeatedly and unceremoniously flattens Wilcox to the mat 17 times, with the 18th being the knockout blow. All the while, the audience guffaws at the zaniness of it all because, of course, a woman in the boxing ring with a man is no contest at all.<\/p>

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Tell that, however, to our current progressive leftist brethren (and sistren and\/or \u201ccis\u201dtren, etc.). In 2024, three members of a California girls’ basketball team were injured by a male Loretta playing for a Massachusetts team. The offended team called the game at halftime, in fact, to avoid further injuries. In 2023, a female field hockey athlete lost teeth from competing against a male opponent who, surprisingly, did not identify as a Loretta but was allowed by Massachusetts state law to participate because the school did not offer a male field hockey team. In 2022, a female volleyball player from North Carolina sustained life-changing injuries due to a net spike from the opposition\u2019s Loretta. No wonder that a private Christian school in Vermont chose to forfeit a 2023 playoff competition against a team with a male athlete. No wonder also that San Jose State has been boycotted by several teams and has now been found in violation of Title IX after recruiting a Loretta and silencing women athletes who were \u201cmisgendering\u201d him.<\/p>\n

To quote a common Python line, the whole thing is just a bit silly. Yet \u201cjust a bit silly\u201d sums up the mindset of modern trans-welcoming feminism, academia, Democrats, etc., all of which insist that the mantra \u201ctrans women are woman\u201d is a substantive statement, not a question-begging reaffirmation of an unfounded premise. Such analyses, however, rarely occur to pink-haired campus activists with megaphones. Fortunately, it is occurring to brave female athletes who are forced to confront their silly culture with their right to compete fairly and avoid almost-certain injury. These women deserve our support in every way.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0Life of Brian<\/em>\u00a0\u201cLoretta\u201d scene, an agreement is reached whereby the People\u2019s Front of Judea will, as a symbolic struggle, fight the oppressors for Stan\u2019s right to have babies. Unpersuaded, Reg (Cleese) characterizes this compromise as \u201csymbolic of Stan\u2019s struggle against reality.\u201d Forty-six years ago, in the Ken Clean-Air System skit, Booth\u2019s Petula Wilcox foreshadowed this modern struggle against reality as she was comically knocked to the mat time and again. Many young female athletes, however, are faced with the all-too-real and not-at-all-funny task of standing up to our life-imitating-Python world despite the threats, both existential and realized, against biological women. In typical British comedy fashion, Python\u2019s Ken epitomizes the clear advantage that biological Kens have against biological Petulas. Seemingly, her comments about Ken\u2019s brain problems apply equally (or equitably?) to modern feminists.<\/p>\n

By the way, Cleese himself has recently stated that an upcoming stage adaptation of\u00a0Brian<\/em>\u00a0will include the Loretta scene. The Pythonesque struggle to affirm reality continues.<\/p>

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